Questions tagged [money-supply]

Questions about the supply side of crypto-currencies including the rate and mechanisms by which coins are made available or unavailable in the economy and the affect of the money supply on the value and usefulness of currencies.

On coinmarketcap Zcash is showing 4 million circulating supply: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zcash/
But they say total supply is 21 million. So does that mean only 4 million has been mined so ...

As we all know the total amount of bitcoins which can be available at any time are capped at 21 Million. This was done by design by its creator/creators (he/she/they say that it is intended to make ...

Still a bit unclear then. How is Bitcoin at 13-18k USD/Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash is only around 2.5-3k USD/Bitcoin Cash? So will we ultimately have 21 million Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash is a fraction of ...

Recently I got in a discussion with my brother over what bitcoin is and what mining is. He had never heard of it so I had to do my best to explain it all from the beginning. I had trouble explaining ...

I am developing a new alpha for algorithmic trading of bitcoin.
My basic Idea is to construct a function which maps a change of supply into the total buy/sell action.
and also I'd like to track the ...

I don't get how there's a limited supply of 21 million bitcoin if we can go into the infinite amount of decimal places.
So for example, you can't go less then 1 cent if we take USD. in BTC, you can ...

Based on concerns about the trusted setup not being able to conclusively disprove the ability to create hidden inflation, Zooko recently described an idea to institute checkpoints to verify the total ...

After reading the white paper of Satoshi Nakamoto. The white paper does not mention anything about a limit of money supply.
I think I have read somewhere mentioned the name, but unfortunately I cannot ...

Is there any way I can find out how many Bitcoins existed at a certain point in time? Are there charts where I could, for example, see how many Bitcoins were in existence in 2011, so I could compare ...

Why the total number of bitcoin is limited? Is there a protocol in the block or somewhere so that the participants can't violate the rule?
The first one who find the block can receive the bitcoin for ...

I know that bitcoin is supposed to have an almost fixed supply of 'coins' (with a maximum of 21.000.000 bitcoins) and technically it can't be expanded. If I store my bitcoins in a third-party e-wallet,...

Based on the fact that the bitcoin "production" will stop around 21 million bitcoins, could this lead to a bitcoin flow freeze?
What I mean is, if we produce all 21 million bitcoins, and keep using ...

Is there a relationship between the equality of wealth of bitcoin holders, and it's foreign exchange value?
E.g. if there is a large transfer of bitcoin to a single owner, should this influence its ...

there is the blockchain.info one for total supply but that very low resolution.
I really was a graph of the actual new bitcoin mined on the market on a daily basis because it seems like a strangely ...

I am currently working with a number of altcoins and and I need to support deposits and withdrawals in currencies with very large coin number cap like Dogecoin. I am wondering whether the Bitcoin Core ...

One of the commonly cited advantages of bitcoin is that there's guaranteed to be only 21 million bitcoins.
However, my understanding is that the bitcoin protocol is patched by an opensource community,...

Since fractional reserve banking where money is created by lending is possible with Bitcoin is there a way it can be measured to give a total amount of money in the system? Such a measurement would ...

The minting of new bitcoins is deterministic, and there will eventually be a cap to the production of new bitcoins. Why do we say that bitcoins are a decentralized currency if they are created in such ...

In terms of user scalability, how many total users is the current bitcoin system best suited for? Example: The current bitcoin mining limit is set at 21 million, therefore the bitcoin ceiling does not ...